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What's on my mind? The media is the manipulation of the masses, that's what on my mind. I'm writing this post in response to the CP24 report on 'rising teacher ...absenteeism' from 2013-2015. On average teachers have been using about 2 more sick days a year. The average has gone from about 8 to about 10. They were quick to report how our absenteeism costs tax payers 1 billion dollars a year. A billion dollars you say? Other ontario workers only get 6 days you say? Well, Premier Wynne and the media that broadcasts these very one sided and manipulated stories, this is how I would like to respond: The nurses, who are exposed to only goodness knows what, we're cut down to 6 sick days. Day care workers? Only allowed 6 a year and no more than once a month. The government has spent years cutting the sick days of workers who are not backed by powerful unions like the teachers. Workers who in the name of public service are exposed to illness on a daily basis. Now that they have successfully cut other people of their sick days, they get on television and say hey, teachers should be treated like everyone else. ONLY EVERYONE ELSE SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN SLASHED TO 6 DAYS! Let's not talk about the increase in stress in these jobs - cuts cuts cuts make working conditions more stressful. Let's pretend, Premier Wynne, that cuts to health care and education don't affect the health of workers. Perhaps that's why sick day usage is on the rise? Funny how the media didn't mention that our sick days were slashed from 20 down to 11 in 2012 in a contract that was forced upon us, paying no attention or mind to the collective bargaining rights in this province! We now have one sick day a month. Is that really such a lavish number? What about parents who send their kids to school even though they are sick? Premier Wynne would probably want me to attack parents and tell them that we arent a babysitting service and to take care of their own sick children. Only I am not as closed minded as our dear Premier. My response is that if Ontario had any respect for workers, parents would have more than 6 paid sick days and would not have to ship their sick kids off to school so that they can put food on the table! Maybe if someone didn't slash their pay after 6 days they could afford to stay home and care for their own sick children. The media comes in and throws out figures and tells one side of a very complex story that will accomplish nothing more than divide and sever the relationship between public workers and the public. It's pins people against each other instead of actually addressing issues that arise out of a very complex set of circumstances that are very closely tied to funding issues. The government past and present have created a deficit that they are trying to pass onto the backs of ontarians. I am not a political person, just a simple Kindergarten teacher who is appealing to my fellow tax payers - let's not let this government take the light off of their own mistakes by waging a war between teachers and the public. They have stripped people of reasonable rights and then use those who they stripped as the new norm. The reality us that the government is broke and is stripping us of reasonable working conditions to compensate for the mismanagement of funds over many years. Then they use the media to report in ways as to turn us against each other (teachers vs. Health care workers vs. Bus operators) so as to take the focus off of the real problem: a huge deficit that they have created. So before you get angry at teachers for using 10 sick days a year, ask us why we need 10 days. Ask what's happening in our classrooms and the funding cuts that put stress on our teachers and take away from the quality of education. Before you buy into the media's one sided presentation of facts, ask yourself why other professions of people who work 40+ hour weeks and spend hours commuting to and from work who sit behind a desk all day in artificial lighting under extreme levels of stress are only allowed to be sick 6 days in a year. Ask yourself if the number of sick days teachers have used in tbe last 2 years could be because climate change is triggering the co-existence of many seasonal viruses breaking out at the exact same time, or increase job stress. I'm not just saying this to defend the teachers. I am saying this to defend every worker in Ontario who doesn't have a union to stand up for their rights. I'm saying this because it looks like once powerful unions are losing their power under governments who have no intention of creating a harmonious society and are concerned only about deflecting responsibility for their own mistakes (power plant scandal sound familiar?) And dividing the masses by leaking one sided stories to the media so that they can gain popularity and keep the focus off of them. They just want to give you someone to hate. Well, Premier Wynne, I will continue to wipe runny noses, check for head lice, wash dirty faces, feed hungry bellies, comfort hurting hearts, educate curious minds and nurture little souls. I will do this because I love my job. I will not, however, apologize for the mistakes of the government and allow you to slander the repuatations and working conditions of members of my hard working profession without having something to say about it. I don't see you broadcasting the images of students with special needs that will be losing their educational assistants, special education teachers, and reading recovery programs because of cuts imposed on education. Shame on you Premier Wynne. You are doing nothing more than damaging and dividing Ontario.